in which I become an apologist for atheism or have I always been [ I thought I would call truce].
Atheism makes no judgement on how the universe came to be, if it did. I see the point though, because an atheist lacks a belief in deities, any attempt at explaining the beginning of the universe that begins by positing a god falls before it can walk or crawl. Too bad for the theist.
This theist writes
Your belief system requires a LOT more faith than mine. Why is that? Let’s see…
- You believe the universe simply came to be from “nothing” yet you cannot really explain the event. It just happened
- You believe we were all very lucky that everything randomly worked out just right to create conditions for life on this planet
I don’t know the origins of the universe, I wasn’t there. It really doesn’t matter. I would love to know but as things stand, it has little to do with my atheism.
I haven’t heard that before, but then again, we are here. Whether it is by lack or lack of it, we are here.
When a believer creates a strawman like the one above, then
Those things seem a lot harder to swallow than to acknowledge that a master design and a creator brought it all into existence.
would begin to make sense.
The theist then writes
Sure there is science to demonstrate that a single event we call the Big Bang occurred but I believe it was orchestrated by God. If not, then how did it happen? What was before it? Once it took place, is it really logical or easy to accept that everything just happened to fall into place? How often does order arise from an explosion anyway?
which tells me this particular fellow isn’t up to date with their science, if they have any. Since, to this person nothing happens naturally, is god involved in earthquakes? No one that I know of, and that is a lot of people, has claimed to know what was before the big bang.
What is order apart from our way of seeing the world? I, however, like the Boeing 737 analogy disguised as a big question.
I know I don’t have answers to anything and at least I know this.
It is however wrong to suggest
it seems like a much bigger leap of faith to deny the existence of God in favor of random chance than to humbly accept that a Creator put this all together.
a being for which you have no idea what it does, how it does and to what end. It is in my view more honest to accept not knowing than offer answers that have no explanatory value.
So no, I don’t have faith as you would wish. I don’t know many things and I could list a number of them but it is stupid to say because you don’t know, so god.
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